Re: [PATCH] Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutils version to 2.23

Arvind Sankar
2020-03-24T23:49:55Z

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 03:14:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 2:42 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > This is just a documentation patch right?
>
> That patch, yes.
>
> However, there's a second patch that knows that if we have binutils >=
> 2.22, then we don't need to check for AVX2 or ADX support, because we
> know it's there.
>
> Linus

Ok. But if you're otherwise ok taking those AVX2/ADX patches for 5.7, as
noted in my other email [1], the x86 build has been broken with
binutils <= 2.22 since v5.3.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200324220147.GA3253486@rani.riverdale.lan/